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and concealed themselves there, some seven or eight of them being wounded.
One was shot through the mouth by a Sharpe's rifle bullet.
He had been squatted behind the wagon wheel; the ball hit one of the spokes, shivering it, and the border ruffian, in trying the juggler's feat of catching it in his mouth, got it lodged somewhere away about the root of the tongue or the back of his neck.
Another, was shot in the upper part of the breast, or the lower part of his neck, the bullet descending and lodging in his back.
Another, a citizen of Westport, as he was galloping off, received a very severe wound in the groin.
He, with several others, who were also wounded, left their camp by the eastern side and escaped.

After Pate's men retreated to the ravine, he endeavored to rally them, and a fire was kept up from the spot where they lay concealed, although the bullets were whistling over their heads at a fearful rate.
And soon the position of Captain Shore was found to be hazardous and critical: fully exposed to an enemy who could shoot at his men almost without running risk, they began to give way; and soon they had nearly all retreated some two hundred yards up the slope, to the high ground, where they were out of range.
Captain Shore, however, and two or three of his men, went over and joined Brown, where the force lay in the long grass, firing down the ravine.
While this firing was going on, to little purpose on either side, Captain Brown went after the boys on the hill.
Some few of them had gone off after ammunition; one or two of them were sitting in the grass, fixing their guns.

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